The success rate of chemotherapy = 2.1% … huh??

Tragically, the five year survival rate for cancer treated with chemotherapy drugs  has remained virtually unchanged for decades. More tragically, that fact is not told to patients by oncologists offering “the standard of care”.  (Note: there is an alleged survey (whose reference I can not currently locate so I can not verify!) regarding  oncologists in Southern California which concluded that 90% of oncologists would NOT take the protocols they prescribe patients were they themselves to get cancer.”)

FACT:  approximately 2% of all cancers respond to chemotherapy.

FACT: Chemotherapy as commonlyprescribed hurts more than it help.

OPINION:  “The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA . . . chemotherapy only makes a minor contribution to cancer survival. To justify the continued funding and availability of drugs used in cytotoxic chemotherapy, a rigorous evaluation of the cost-effectiveness and impact on quality of life is urgently required.”

Sez  who?

Says:  Morgan G, Ward R, Barton M. in his article:  The contribution of cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adult malignancies. 

Published where?  Some fringe journal?

No.  It was published in the premiere cancer journal: Clinical Oncology                        (see  Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2004 Dec;16(8):549-60.)

Well,  is this new information? When was it published?

Only  4  YEARS  ago! !!    December  2004

Well, if this has been known for the past 4 years, why doesn’t my oncologist (who is this very minute pressuring me to take chemotherapy)  know about the overall worthlessness of chemotherapy as it is conventionally prescribed?

Ask him or her!

So, what good IS chemotherapy?

In the context of Corrective Health,  if used in 1/10 the standard dose in a targeted manner with insulin as a potentiating factor,  chemotherapy is considered by patients to be “hard on cancer and easy on patients”.  They also call this technique (first developed in 1940) as  “side-effect free chemotherapy”.

SUMMARY:   Like any tool, chemotherapy drugs can be used or misused – they can be used elegantly or, quite sadly as is commonly known today,  they can be wielded like a blunt instrument. See  http://weeksmd.com/?p=1114   and http://weeksmd.com/?p=883   and   http://weeksmd.com/?p=890  to learn more about the elegant use of chemotherapy.